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Lines connecting hard science to poetic wonder

These quotes treat atoms as both a scientific building block and a poetic idea, from nanotechnology's literal manufacturing at the atomic scale to the claim that the universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nanotechnology
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Nov 07, 2020

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.

Quotes by William Powell

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

Quotes by Steven Chu

Nov 07, 2020

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Quotes by Muriel Rukeyser

Nov 07, 2020

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

Quotes by Kyle Hill

Nov 07, 2020

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Quotes by Johannes Stark

Knowing
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Nov 07, 2020

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Quotes by George Wald

Delegate
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Nov 07, 2020

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

Quotes by Frederick Reines

Nov 07, 2020

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

Quotes by Alfred Werner

One more technical line even describes atoms behaving like a moth drawn toward laser intensity, adding a strange, almost living about-face to the science.

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